Confidence (1909)

1909 · Silent film · 12 min · dir. D.W. Griffith

• Drama

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Synopsis

A beautiful romance of a girl from the Golden West. Confidence is the flower grown from the seed of true friendship, watered by the tears of adversity, and often assailed by the blight of calumny. For as Shakespeare says', "be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." So it was with little Nellie Burton, the orphan girl of the rancho, who budding into womanhood, realizes her position and appreciates the low brutal character of the habitués of the Dive, even…

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Details

Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

D.W. Griffith

Studio

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Released

1909-04-15

Running time

12 minutes

Cast & crew

• D.W. Griffith Director
• Florence Lawrence
• Charles Inslee
• Herbert Prior
• Linda Arvidson
• Charles Avery
• Kate Bruce
• Raymond Hatton
• AAnita Hendrie

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